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Migration

Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica ŠIan Montgomery http://birdway.com.au

Many migration studies use modern techniques combining radio transmitters with satellite tracking. The studies involve both very scare and quite common species and have recently uncovered a great deal of information regarding both routes and en route feeding and hidden wintering grounds etc.

I was just reading an article extolling the virtues of "viz mig" otherwise known as visible migration. It really is a joy to see and can be a treat in an unlikely circumstance. last year, for example, I was waiting in a town centre in SE England whilst my wife shopped. Looking up (this was late september) I saw a few swallows passing south over the high street. 20 minutes later I was up to 800 - that afternoon others reported many thousands of swallows on the move. A joy to marvel at.

Migration may not be spectacular and rarity oriented. watching your local patch at migration times brings the frisson of finding less common birds, or even just ones not common to the patch. A sudden influx of Scandinavian Robins can be as exciting as finding a true rarity.

See individual countries for Bird Observatories.

useful reading

Bird Migration

by Dominic Couzens New Holland ?12.99
See Fatbirder Review
ISBN: 184330970X
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Bird Migration - A General Survey

[Second Edition 2001] by Peter Berthold ? Translated by Hans-Gunther Bauer & Valerie Westhead ? OUP
See Fatbirder Review
ISBN: 0198507879
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds

by Scott Weidensaul Paperback 432 pages Henry Holt & Co 2000
ISBN: 0865475911
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Songbird Journeys - Four seasons in the lives of migratory birds

by Miyuko Chu, Walker Books, 2006
ISBN: 166397A
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The Migration Ecology of Birds

by Ian Newton Academic Press 2007 ISBN 9780125173674
ISBN: 169548
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clubs

BTO - Birdtrack

http://www.bto.org/birdtrack/
The online bird recording scheme to increase the personal, local and national value of your sightings...

Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/
The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is dedicated to fostering greater understanding, appreciation, and protection of the grand phenomenon of bird migration...

Trektellen

http://www.trektellen.nl/default.asp?land=1
Migration counts and ringing records The Netherlands, Flanders and France...

reserves

Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre

700 - Bird Migrations

http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/bird700.htm
Notes on bird migrations; especially in Southern Indiana

ARRCN Asian Raptor Migration WebPage

http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~raptor/index.htm
This web site is consisted by information of Asian raptor migration. Therfore, if you have some information on Asian raptor migration, please send me the data.We ask that the following raptor migration data be provided, at least.

Aviscience

http://www.aviscience.com/
A new and building scientific resource for ornithologists and birders everywhere...

Biogeographical Profiles of Shorebird Migration in Midcontinental North America

http://www.mesc.usgs.gov/Products/Publications/pub_abstract.asp?PubID=555
The biogeographic information described here will help identify the uniqueness of different regions of the plains to migrating shorebirds. Although shorebirds migrating along Atlantic and Pacific coastal areas are capable of long jumps between refueling stops, there is evidence that some species move short rather than long distances between refueling sites. Maps of distribution patterns and chronology accounts can lend insight towards understanding migration strategies of the different shorebird species...

Bird Migration Numbers

http://www.birdmigration.tk
One of the best parts of birdwatching is bird migration. Watching the sun rise, hear and see the birds fly over. The only things you need is a chair to sit on, binoculars and coffee. The purpose of this activity: It`s nice to do; The purpose of this site: to give you an idea of how many of what birds migrate when and how much can you see of it on an arbitrary location in the Netherlands.

Bird Monitoring in North America

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/birds.html
The monitoring programs highlighted on these pages can be used to track changes in North American bird populations. These trends give conservationists, managers, citizens, and policy makers a window into the natural world and the health of environment. The patterns of increase and decrease are quantifications that can be tested against and compared to the subjective feelings we have on the status of birds in North America. Are more species increasing than decreasing? Are Eastern Bluebirds doing well or poorly? What do we know about shorebirds? Learn about these programs, use their data, participate in the counts, and write about the changes.

Birdcast

http://www.birdsource.org/birdcast/
BirdCast is an exciting new collaborative effort that enables anyone to track migrating birds as they move through the Mid-Atlantic region. Not only do BirdCast Web-watchers see radar imagery which depicts bird movements throughout peak migration periods, but they have the opportunity to help scientists better analyze what the radar images mean by reporting what they are seeing out in their yards, in parks, or at other favorite bird-watching spots...

Birds of Prey

http://www.jaybat.com/birdsahoy/hawks/
I'm most familiar with the migrations of Broad-winged Hawks, Mississippi Kites, and Red-tailed Hawks over the central and western Gulf Coast United States. The most exciting experience I've had was at Hazel Bazemore County Park in Corpus Christi, Texas, where tens of thousands of Broad-winged Hawks are visible in late September. If you spend a week or so there between the 19th and 28th of the month, I'll guarantee you'll be amazed at what you'll see.

Convention on Migratory Species

http://www.cms.int/
... Conservation and effective management of migratory species of wild animals require the concerted action of all States within the national jurisdictional boundaries of which such species spend any part of their life cycle...

Hawk Migration Network of Japan

http://www.gix.or.jp/~norik/hawknet/hawk10.htm
Hawk Migration Monitoring Throughout Japan - including Links to other Hawk Migration websites in Japan and beyond.

Journey North

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
Over 4,500 schools, representing more than 250,000 students, participated in the Spring, 2000 Journey North Program. These students are from all 50 U.S. States and 7 Canadian Provinces...

Lesser Golden Plover Migration

http://www.paulnoll.com/Oregon/Birds/migrate-shorebirds.html
Shorebirds, like most of our waterfowl, nest on th arctic tundra and migrate to southern wintering grounds. Yet unlike waterfowl, many shorebirds -- sandpipers, plovers, godwits, curlews --- migrate beyond the confines of the North American continent...

Light Pollution - Artificial lighting and ecology

http://enquire.hertscc.gov.uk/hbrc/projects/lighting.html
Populations of our most nocturnal owl species are declining whereas the least nocturnal species are increasing.

Light Pollution - Bad Lighting

http://www.badlighting.com/
Links to information on how poor lighting effects animals and especially migrating birds.

Light Pollution - Bird Migration Friendly Lighting

http://store.yahoo.com/elights/darksky.html
Whether you call it Cut Off Lighting, Friendly Lighting, or Good Neighbor Lighting, it`s common sense to choose lighting fixtures that cut glare, reduce sky glow and eliminate wasted energy dollars. Many communities are passing legislation to enforce environmentally sound outdoor lighting practices, but you don`t need legislation to use courtesy and common sense when buying and installing light fixtures.

Light Pollution - Campaign for Dark Skies

http://www.dark-skies.org/
No, it isn`t the opposite of heavy pollution! People have enjoyed looking at the night sky, one of the most beautiful parts of our environment, for thousands of years. Everyone should be able to see stars and planets, our Milky Way galaxy and shooting stars (meteors); but over the last forty years, millions of lights have blotted out the night sky for people living in towns, and even in the countryside road lights and security lights can cause problems for anyone who wants to see the stars.

Light Pollution - FLAP [Fatal Light Awareness Program]

http://www.flap.org/new/black.htm
What to with night light to prevent migration casualties.

Maps & Distribution of the Birds of the Western Palearctic Region

http://digilander.iol.it/avifauna/w_palearctic/cover.html
Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region by Alberto Masi

Migration Information

http://www.migrationinformation.org/
One of the best parts of birdwatching is bird migration. Watching the sun rise and see the birds fly over...

Migration Watch

http://www.bto.org/migwatch/
BTO annual project...

Olympic Vulture Study

http://www.hmana.org/projects/olympic.php
The Olympic Vulture Study site is dedicated to the turkey vulture migration in the Pacific Northwest (U.S.); specifically between Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and the northern Olympic coast of Washington state. The text tells about the study and gives a chart showing raptor migration across the Strait of Juan de Fuca for the past eight years. There are links to other vulture sites, and to the park where the study takes place. This fall will be the ninth year of the study.

Operation Migration

http://www.operationmigration.org/
A new generation of Whooping crane chicks has hatched and are currently in training...

Organbidexka Col Libre

http://www.organbidexka.org/navigati.htm
Part of the Association d`Etude et de Protection des Oiseaux migrateurs - in French

Satellite Tracking of Endangered Birds

http://www.spacetoday.org/Satellites/Tracking/SatTracking.html
The Patuxent Wildlife Research Centre, and the Direct Readout group of the Applied Information Sciences Branch (Code 935) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre are working together on a project to monitor the migration routes of several endangered species using satellite tracking

Shorebird Migration

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/birdsite/text/essays/Shorebird_Migration.html
Essay

Shorebird Migration Tracking

http://www.prbo.org/cms/index.php?mid=216&module=browse
Shorebirds - the sandpipers and plovers - have something in common: long slender wings perfectly adapted for flights of incredible distance. Some shorebirds fly over a hundred thousand miles in their lifetime!

Telpost Breskens

http://members.lycos.nl/telpost_breskens/
This site contains recent counts of Viz-Mig at Breskens in the southwest of the Netherlands. Now in it`s twenty-first year the group is as fanatical as ever to man the post as often and as long as possible.

Tracking Snowgeese

http://www.werc.usgs.gov/sfbe/snowgoose.html
Tracking the Spring Migration of Snow Geese from the Desert to the Tundra using Satellite Radio Telemetry...

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